Ethics Café Series: Special AI Edition
Total Credits: 1 CLE, 1 Ethics
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- Bundle(s):
- 2025 Ethics Cafe Bundle
- Categories:
- Ethics | Law Practice Management & Technology
- Faculty:
- Lynda C Shely | Keith Swisher | Kimberly Sharr Tirrell
- Co-Sponsored by:
- The State Bar of Arizona's Ethics Advisory Group
- Location:
- State Bar of Arizona, Daniel J. McAuliffe CLE Center - Phoenix, AZ
Description
Yes, another ethics CLE on using AI appropriately! This cutting-edge program will cover:
- Recent Arizona and federal cases involving AI blunders
- New rule amendments and official guidance related to using AI
- Duties to supervise staff and even co-counsel using AI
- Warnings to clients about virtual hearings
- Tips to include in fee agreements about the use of AI (by lawyers and clients)
Presenters:
Lynda Shely, Rosing Pott & Strohbehn
Professor Keith Swisher, University of Arizona College of Law
Kimberly Tirrell, Maricopa County Attorney's Office
Note: Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees
Faculty
Lynda C Shely Related Seminars and Products
Rosing Pott & Strohbehn
Lynda C. Shely is a partner in the Phoenix, Arizona office of Rosing Pott & Strohbehn (in partnership with Zelms Erlich Lenkov) where she provides legal ethics, risk management, and ABS regulatory advice to lawyers, law firms, and law firm investors. She was the 2020-2023 chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, an Arizona Delegate in the ABA House of Delegates, and currently volunteers with several other nonbillable entities involved in legal ethics matters, including as a member of the Arizona Supreme Court’s Alternative Business Structure Committee, the Arizona Supreme Court’s Committee on AI in the Courts, the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Regulation, and the State Bar of Arizona Ethics Advisory Group. She is a past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, the Scottsdale Bar Association, and the National ABS Law Firm Association. She has been an adjunct professor at all Arizona law schools, teaching professional responsibility. Lynda has received several awards for her contributions to the legal community including the 2007 State Bar of Arizona Member of the Year Award, the 2022 Maricopa County Bar Member of the Year Award, the 2023 Maricopa County Bar Hall of Fame, and the 2024 Arizona Women Lawyers' Association Annual Sarah Herring Sorin Award. Lynda had her own law firm for 21 years before joining Rosing Pott & Strohbehn. Prior to opening her own firm, Lynda was the Director of Lawyer Ethics for the State Bar of Arizona. Before moving to Arizona, Lynda was an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington, DC. Lynda received her BA from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA and her JD from Catholic University in Washington, DC.
Keith Swisher Related Seminars and Products
Swisher PC
Keith Swisher is Professor of Legal Ethics and Director of the Bachelor of Law and Master of Legal Studies Programs at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Prof. Swisher teaches legal ethics and procedure, serves as ethics counsel and expert witness to lawyers, law firms, and judges, and represents indigent defendants in the Ninth Circuit. His scholarship is regularly published and cited in the areas of legal and judicial ethics and disqualification, and he previously founded and edited the first blogs on judicial ethics and lawyer disqualification. He is a former member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the Editorial Board of ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct. In 2011, he received the ABA's Rosner & Rosner Young Lawyer Professionalism Award, and in 2016, he received the AJC's Learned Hand Emerging Leadership Award.
Previously, Prof. Swisher clerked for the Ninth Circuit (Canby, J.) and practiced at Osborn Maledon in Phoenix.
Kimberly Sharr Tirrell Related Seminars and Products
Kimberly Tirrell is an Assistant Bureau Chief, Deputy County Attorney, with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Ms. Tirrell handles prosecution for dangerous complex cases. She is the co-coordinator of the CGIC/NIBIN group within the County Attorney’s Office. In 2019 she was named both East Division Attorney of the Year and as Maricopa County-Prosecutor of the Year. Ms. Tirrell has been a member of the Arizona Women’s Lawyer Association since 2014. She was appointed to the Ethics Advisory Group-State Bar of Arizona in August of 2022. She is licensed to practice law in Arizona and Missouri.
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Location
State Bar of Arizona, Daniel J. McAuliffe CLE Center
